Legal History - Harvard Law School

From the legal framework of ancient Athens and the legally rich traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, to the long development of the English common law and the genesis of the U.S. Constitution, to the ensuing and enduring struggle for civil rights, the ways that different peoples have ordered their societies over the course of human history continue to influence modern legal theory and practice. Harvard Law School students enjoy unparalleled opportunities to study the historical evolution of law as contextualized within a larger world of social movements and political, cultural, and economic change.

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Faculty

HLS Professors

Nikolas Bowie

Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law
Maureen Brady

Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law
Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law
John C. Coates

John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics
Christine A. Desan

Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law
Charles Donahue

Paul A. Freund Professor of Law
Noah R. Feldman

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
William W. Fisher

WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law
John Goldberg

Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence
Annette Gordon-Reed

Carl M. Loeb University Professor
Janet E. Halley

Eli Goldston Professor of Law
Jon D. Hanson

Alan A. Stone Professor of Law
Morton J. Horwitz

Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Emeritus
Elizabeth Papp Kamali

Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law
Duncan M. Kennedy

Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus
Adriaan M. Lanni

Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law
Richard J. Lazarus

Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law
Anna Lvovsky

Professor of Law
Kenneth W. Mack

Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law
Bruce H. Mann

Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law
Intisar A. Rabb

Professor of Law
Stephen Sachs

Antonin Scalia Professor of Law
Kristen A. Stilt

Professor of Law
Mark Tushnet

William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus
Laura Weinrib

Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law

Visiting Professors & Lecturers

Marco Basile

Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
Jud Campbell

William Nelson Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law
Jeanne Charn

Senior Lecturer on Law
Daniel R. Coquillette

Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History
David Fontana

Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law
Christopher S. Havasy

Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
Tamar Herzog

Harvard University Affiliated Professor
Andrew Lanham

Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
Anne Orford

Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization
Sarath Sanga

William Nelson Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law
Miryam Segal

Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law
Daniel L. Smail

Harvard University Affiliated Professor

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